Jen Desmarais, Author (she/her)
@jendesmaraisauthor.bsky.social
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40yo disabled queer mother of 2, book dragon, proud geek, author, AuDHD. No AI.
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There are pictures in the post now!!! :-)
@talhi.bsky.social
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@pinkpiggy93.bsky.social
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River City Siren Press
5 months ago
Look at our
#KindleUnlimited
superstars go!
@desireeduboisbooks.bsky.social
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Portal fantasy, some of which are queer.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)
8 months ago
Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor. He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down. The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him. This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies
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I was interviewed by the awesome
@elizaleone.bsky.social
! It was such a fun way to be interviewed and I loved getting to know her!
www.elizaleone.com/blog/int-jen...
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Writer Interview: Jen Desmarais โ Eliza Leone - Author
Join me and those in Alku as we get to know Jen Desmarais, the author of the upcoming Winging It , while we talk words, books, art, and all things characters!
https://www.elizaleone.com/blog/int-jen-desmarais?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAac0BYlSsfGpT4c-jHBJvEoYcdvindylRAR-bleEBu0LLOUmHppBO3ZiOx83-g_aem_mrABfbjGSUWe-vSdJvMGtg
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Happy birthday to Tommy Fairfield! Book 2 "Winging It" is a queer YA portal fantasy romance. Cover artist: @pinkpiggy93 Published by @renaissancebookpress Art in top left square by @talhibriones Universal book link:
www.jeneric-designs.ca/UBL-WingingIt
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Book giveaway! Comment here to enter. Feel free to comment on our other socials for more entries. โค๏ธ
#bookgiveaway
#giveaway
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Ah, so that's how it would work. Might I suggest North Island-Powell River? Aaron Gunn doesn't deserve to represent Canada.
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9 months ago
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Christina Orlando
9 months ago
Just letting fellow New Yorkers know that you can get access to Mango through your library card!!! FREE!!!! and it is a better language learning program!!
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I loved this book! Thank you for giving me a chance to read and blurb it,
@kamielke.bsky.social
! Made me feel like a real author(TM)!
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9 months ago
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Rainbow Crate
10 months ago
๐ Do you or someone you know have an May queer book release? Indie or Trad books! Add it by April 27th! (No AI books or covers) Include: -title & author (& series name) -release date -link to the cover or the cover image We will be adding these to our new release list! ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
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Abra / Jessica Conwell, The Everwife ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ป
almost 2 years ago
On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
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Hedge Wizardly ๐ฑ
10 months ago
JKR funded the campaign group behind all this btw. This is why we beg you to stop engaging with Harry Potter media.
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Can*Con
10 months ago
We are ZEBRING! to see so many friends of the con nominated for this year's Aurora Awards!
www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...
Congratulations to S.M. Bieko,
@kercoby.bsky.social
, David Clink,
@geoffreywcole.bsky.social
,
@andregeleynse.com
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@kateheartfield.com
,
@ourmankoto.bsky.social
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Current Ballot โ The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA)SearchToggle MenuFacebookToggle Menu CloseSearch
https://www.csffa.ca/awards-information/current-ballot/
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Kaya Skovdatter ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ (She/They)
10 months ago
Having a long memory sucks. Because it means having to watch shitty people in the field crop up repeatedly. Finally looked at the full Aurora list and Renรฉ Walling is back to conrunning? Renรฉ who is, unless something changed in the last decade, still banned from Readercon for life. ->
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Lol yes please
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10 months ago
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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders ๐จ๐ฆ
10 months ago
We are still dealing with the fallout of Harris decades later If PP is elected and allowed to do this at a critical moment for Canada, this country may *never* recover
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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato
10 months ago
Gift article - โBuy Canadianโ movement could add $10 billion annually to Canadaโs economy, says BMO economist
www.thestar.com/business/buy...
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Franchesca Ramsey
10 months ago
Virginia service worker Jennifer Piggott voted for Trump knowing others would suffer she just never thoughtโฆ ๐๐
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10 months ago
It's the Ace Day of Visibility and my big ace monster novel just got nominated for the Hugo for Best Novel! When I poured my soul into this, I never imagined how many people it would touch. Thank you all so, so much.
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Rainbow Crate
10 months ago
๐ What's COMING OUT (pun intended) this April? Which books are you excited for? Which books are you adding to your TBR? Any other queer releases you know of?
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"Winging It" is a queer YA portal fantasy romance. A wedding and a summer camp that Tommy and Carter are never going to forget. The only way they, and their relationship, can survive is if they start Winging It! Cover artist:
@pinkpiggy93.bsky.social
UBL:
www.jeneric-designs.ca/UBL-WingingIt
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10 months ago
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www.kickstarter.com/projects/ren...
Do not sleep on this Kickstarter!!! Mrs. Victoria buys a Brothel by
@talhi.bsky.social
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Mrs. Victoria buys a Brothel Special Edition
Gain access to exclusive art, additional stories, and other exclusive benefits by the talented author of Mrs. Victoria Buys a Brothel!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/renaissancebp/mrs-victoria-buys-a-brothel-special-edition
10 months ago
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Joe Katz
11 months ago
Good for
@aoc.bsky.social
. Has your member of Congress issued a statement on the disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil yet? Scripts and language via
@qasimrashid.com
to demand they speak up:
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TC Parker/Dr Nat Edwards (she/her)
11 months ago
If you're boycotting AMZ, but still want to buy/read books: please, have a look at whether the relevant big publisher/small press/indie author sells direct This month and last is hitting everyone's book sales hard, and all of us - trad, small press & indie alike - still need to pay our bills :)
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We're eligible for a bunch of nominations. (Only Canadians can nominate, I'm afraid.) How do you nominate? Go to this website:
www.csffa.ca/members-home/
Join, pay membership fee Nominate up to 5 works per category
www.csffa.ca/members-home...
11 months ago
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Happy birthday!!
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11 months ago
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I'm not saying I have a favourite character, but somebody shares my birthday... Top corner art by
@talhi.bsky.social
Middle and bottom art by
@pinkpiggy93.bsky.social
"Crushing It" available now, "Winging It" available in pre-order (even on Kobo+ !)
www.jeneric-designs.ca/UBL-CrushingIt
11 months ago
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Melinda M. Snodgrass
11 months ago
This has me shaking with rage. I have an autoimmune disease. I get the Covid booster ever 6 months. Viruses mutate, evolve so the vaccines have to evolve too and this asshole is stopping that research & development.
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Got my voter's card today, but thankfully you don't need it to go vote! Grab ID with your address and you're good to vote! Go do it if you haven't already!
11 months ago
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Addendum: if IRL hockey starting having gay romances between the players, I would watch. Probably.
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11 months ago
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Okay ads, pay attention. Yes, I read hockey romance. No, I don't watch hockey. I do not want ads for hockey unless it is in fiction book form with romance. Got it?
11 months ago
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Desiree DuBois, Author
12 months ago
Back cover art for "I Knew I Loved You", published by
@rivercitysiren.bsky.social
this July 2025!! Art by
@pinkpiggy93.bsky.social
Yes I'm drawing this out! Want to see the cover art sooner? Share this and tag me!
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Love this! Listened to it while I was editing images.
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11 months ago
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@ericdesmarais.bsky.social
and I had a lot of fun (and sold well!) at
@robertplantegreen.bsky.social
's book fair this past weekend. Here's hoping they do another one!!
11 months ago
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Desiree DuBois, Author
12 months ago
Initial sketch by
@pinkpiggy93.bsky.social
of my cover "I Knew I Loved You" Are you already dying over the gorgeousness? I can't even breathe. Published by
@rivercitysiren.bsky.social
this July!!
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Kate Mathos | Author
12 months ago
Hi friends! I had the pleasure of doing an interview for Indie Author Book Spotlight! It was so fun! Check it out below
#booksky
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This afternoon I did Arts and Crafts in preparation for the book fair at
@robertplantegreen.bsky.social
on Sunday February 23, 10-3. Can't wait!!
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"Winging It" is a queer YA portal fantasy romance. Cover artist:
@pinkpiggy93.bsky.social
Universal book link:
www.jeneric-designs.ca/UBL-WingingIt
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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him)
12 months ago
Hey, need some queer magic? Right nowโand until the end of Aprilโyou can nab my collection of queerly-retold holiday tales (including the newest Village holiday romance, "Folly") on audio for *half off*! Also?
@gianster98.bsky.social
and
@hschooner.bsky.social
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50% OFF Upon the Midnight Queer
Holiday tales, retold queerly… A silk hat turns snow into life and a chance at love for a man with little hope of either. Two men with a connection sparked in passing attempt to withstand ever...
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Looks so good!!
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12 months ago
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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders ๐จ๐ฆ
12 months ago
ONTARIANS: In a move taken straight out of the Republican playbook, Doug Ford has made it harder to vote. You MUST register to vote even if you a) have voted before and b) haven't moved - and you only have until the 17th to do it Go to
elections.on.ca
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12 months ago
Any
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Finished the short story "Snow Day" with Tommy and Carter, and submitted it to
@rivercitysiren.bsky.social
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12 months ago
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There are pictures in the post now!!! :-)
@talhi.bsky.social
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12 months ago
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Ew I just got a text from the CPC. As if I'm going to a rally for that sniveling radish.
12 months ago
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Jordan Roberts
12 months ago
Put this another way... Mob money and organized crime (plus PC party leadership race fuckery) put Ford in office, via Vaughan Working Families. (Another RCMP "investigation" you'll never hear about again.) In power, they rewrote Ontario's laws to make sure they would remain in office forever.
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Roan ๐บ๐ฎ
12 months ago
Hi, I'm Roan, a transmasc writer & artist currently focused on writing an epic fantasy novel series with prominent trans and queer characters. ๐บ Patreon:
www.patreon.com/c/FaindriArt
Ko-fi:
ko-fi.com/faindriart
Art Commissions:
faindriart.carrd.co#commissions
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Indie Book Spotlight
12 months ago
My birthday is the 16th of February (this coming weekend!) and I shall be 32! ๐ฅฐ So if anyone wants to buy my books or toss a coffee at me (sorry, not literally this time ๐) then this is the perfect week to do so! ๐๐๐ mah books:
linktr.ee/rjcrunden
coffeeeeee:
ko-fi.com/rjcrunden
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